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| ## Left out for brevity | |||
| -V- | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| *Leaders Eat Last* | |||
| by Simon Sinek | |||
| <img data-src="slides/books/leaders.jpg" alt="Book cover" class="r-stretch" /> | |||
| --- | |||
| #### Arousal addiction | |||
| @@ -9,3 +18,52 @@ | |||
| Addiction to new, stronger stimuli. <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| e.g. by setting bigger and bigger goals. <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| ## Discipline | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" data-background="slides/daily_heroism.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.5" --> | |||
| ### TOOL: Daily Heroism <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" --> | |||
| [Philip Zimbardo] <!-- .element: class="reference-author" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" data-background="slides/daily_heroism.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| Take a small step out of your comfort zone. | |||
| Daily. | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" data-background="slides/daily_heroism.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| #### Why? | |||
| - grows your ability to **act**, step out of the crowd | |||
| - supports fulfilling your vision and maintaining discipline | |||
| It makes the elephant jump before it realizes<br/> the hole is too deep for comfort. | |||
| <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| ### My Heroism | |||
| Game of smalltalk | |||
| - chat up random people<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - do it before you rationalize a reason to back out<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| ### Real world | |||
| is complex and ever-changing. | |||
| ### Mental model <!-- .element: class="fragment" data-fragment-index="2" --> | |||
| is our understanding of the world and its rules. <!-- .element: class="fragment" data-fragment-index="2" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| Mental models have varying levels of *objectivity*, | |||
| i.e. how much they correspond to reality. | |||
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| @@ -139,30 +139,37 @@ and track them daily. | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| ### My Tracking | |||
| ### My Tracking Example | |||
| - Gym sessions tracker<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - A4 sheet per week<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - table of exercises for tracking effort<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - Work session log<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - digital journal<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - one line per day of what I worked on<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - brief and simple, use of keywords<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| Once a habit is firmly established, I drop the tracking.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| #### Gym sessions<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - A4 sheet per week, daily tracking<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - table of exercises + time and effort<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| #### Gym sessions tracker | |||
| #### Book of workouts | |||
| <img src="slides/habit_tracker_book.jpg" alt="Book" class="r-stretch"> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| #### One page per week | |||
| <img src="slides/habit_tracker_page.jpg" alt="Book" class="r-stretch"> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" data-background-image="slides/habit_tracker_100.jpg" --> | |||
| #### 100 weeks in a row<br/>(1.92 years) <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| ### My Observations | |||
| - helped me to build a habit | |||
| - kept me accountable | |||
| - lowering barriers for entry is key | |||
| - predefined plan = less decision making | |||
| - always have a few sheets in stock | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" data-background="slides/todo_today.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.4" --> | |||
| ### TOOL: ToDo Today <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" --> | |||
| @@ -252,32 +259,3 @@ At the end of the day: | |||
| 1. TODAY entries move to an archive | |||
| 2. TOMORROW is formed, becomes TODAY | |||
| 3. Job well done! | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" data-background="slides/daily_heroism.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.5" --> | |||
| ### TOOL: Daily Heroism <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" --> | |||
| [Philip Zimbardo] <!-- .element: class="reference-author" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" data-background="slides/daily_heroism.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| Take a small step out of your comfort zone. | |||
| Daily. | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" data-background="slides/daily_heroism.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| #### Why? | |||
| - grows your ability to **act**, step out of the crowd | |||
| - supports fulfilling your vision and maintaining discipline | |||
| It makes the elephant jump before it realizes<br/> the hole is too deep for comfort. | |||
| <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| ### My Heroism | |||
| Game of smalltalk | |||
| - chat up random people<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - do it before you rationalize a reason to back out<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
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| -V- | |||
| ### Expanding potential | |||
| Modern world brought us... <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| Never before in history did we have so much... <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - safety, stability, life expectancy <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - freedom, opportunity <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - safety, stability, long life <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - freedom, opportunities <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - accessible information, knowledge <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| ...and **so many options** to choose from! | |||
| @@ -283,12 +281,3 @@ by Martin Seligman | |||
| by Leo Babauta | |||
| <img data-src="slides/books/focus.jpg" alt="Book cover" class="r-stretch" /> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| *Leaders Eat Last* | |||
| by Simon Sinek | |||
| <img data-src="slides/books/leaders.jpg" alt="Book cover" class="r-stretch" /> | |||
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| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/goal_based_motivation.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| **Pros:** it works! | |||
| **Pros:** | |||
| - it works!<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| **Cons:** it causes us damage,<br />it is not sustainable | |||
| **Cons:** | |||
| - it causes us damage,<br />it is not sustainable | |||
| <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| Joy fades, requiring more demanding goals. <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| @@ -87,6 +89,17 @@ And it feels good.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| ### Personal vision | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/group_vision.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| How we'd like to spend our limited time.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - activities we'd like to be doing<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - milestones we'd like to pass<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - journey-based internal motivation<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| ### Meaning | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/group_vision.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| When your actions have positive impact on others,<br /> | |||
| @@ -100,23 +113,12 @@ it gives them a deeper meaning.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| ### Personal vision | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/group_vision.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| How we'd like to spend our limited time.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - activities we'd like to be doing<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - milestones we'd like to pass<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - journey-based internal motivation<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| ### Group vision | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/group_vision.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.2" --> | |||
| Cooperation of individual visions.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - it boosts the entire group <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - as well as one's own potential <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - working together helps the group <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - it also boosts one's own potential <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| > The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. | |||
| <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| @@ -147,16 +149,12 @@ What gets out of bed in the morning?<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| ### Personal SWOT | |||
| <div class="flex-container flex-wrap flex-table flex-table-2"> | |||
| <div><h4>S</h4>Strengths</div><!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| <div><h4>W</h4>Weaknesses</div><!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| <div><h4>O</h4>Opportunities</div><!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| <div><h4>T</h4>Threats</div><!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| <div><h4>S</h4>Strengths</div> | |||
| <div><h4>W</h4>Weaknesses</div> | |||
| <div><h4>O</h4>Opportunities</div> | |||
| <div><h4>T</h4>Threats</div> | |||
| </div> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" --> | |||
| Time to reflect on yourself! | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" --> | |||
| #### Strengths | |||
| @@ -201,47 +199,49 @@ These can be improved, but don't devote too much time to it. <!-- .element: clas | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| #### Strengths | |||
| - life-long programming experience, love building useful solutions | |||
| - attention to detail, carefulness, looking for perfection; love creating nice and clean software | |||
| - persevering problem solver; like to explore and solve mysteries in tech | |||
| - life-long programming experience | |||
| - perfectionist who loves creating nice and clean software | |||
| - persevering problem solver, especially with mysteries in tech | |||
| - open-minded and attentive listener | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| #### Weaknesses | |||
| - introverted, social interactions are taxing | |||
| - lacking in open confrontation, group arguments | |||
| - cautious in opinions, not an 'influencer' | |||
| - cautious in opinions | |||
| I spent way too much time fighting my social skills.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| #### Opportunities | |||
| - switch jobs for | |||
| - better fitting role - SW developer? | |||
| - switch jobs for... | |||
| - better fitting role (SW developer) | |||
| - higher pay | |||
| - different tech stack | |||
| - getting back to distributed systems | |||
| - contribute to an open source project | |||
| - use college degree (distributed systems) | |||
| - build specific expertise, get exposure | |||
| - share knowledge through talks and blog | |||
| - contribute to the state-of-the-art | |||
| - build specific expertise on one topic | |||
| - get more exposure, share knowledge through talks and blog | |||
| - ... | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| #### Threats | |||
| - changed role: boring / stressful / annoying | |||
| - changed job: | |||
| - low pay / annoying co-workers / toxic workplace / long commute | |||
| - changed role or job | |||
| - boring / stressful / annoying | |||
| - annoying co-workers / toxic workplace | |||
| - lower pay / long commute | |||
| - having to use Windows | |||
| - more exposure - personal attacks | |||
| - more exposure leading to personal attacks | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| #### My Observations | |||
| - my SWOT felt misaligned with the current career (people management)<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - my SWOT felt misaligned with the current career (coding vs. people management)<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - Threats already applied to the current situation<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| Change was desirable and not even that risky.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| Change was apparently needed + low risk.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" --> | |||
| @@ -255,11 +255,10 @@ Change was desirable and not even that risky.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| ### My Achievements | |||
| - finished college with a cool master's thesis | |||
| - became a dev team leader | |||
| - self-hosting the services I use via VPS | |||
| - finished college, wrote a cool master's thesis | |||
| - became a team leader | |||
| - self-hosting my services via VPS | |||
| - extracted ERP legacy tax functionality via a strategy pattern | |||
| - built and coded a split keyboard | |||
| - learned to type using the Workman layout | |||
| - ... | |||
| @@ -324,15 +323,6 @@ Finding a personal vision takes effort and time.<!-- .element: class="fragment" | |||
| Finding a beta version is easier<br />so you won't procrastinate to start!<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" --> | |||
| #### Answer these... | |||
| 1. Favorite quote/idea that resonates? | |||
| 2. Life values? | |||
| 3. Fulfilling activities? | |||
| 4. Meaningful activities? | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| ### My Beta-Vision | |||
| @@ -346,18 +336,11 @@ Finding a beta version is easier<br />so you won't procrastinate to start!<!-- . | |||
| ### Final Personal Vision | |||
| <p> | |||
| A few paragraphs of what you want to be doing, | |||
| <br> | |||
| taking into account the analysis from the previous steps. | |||
| A few paragraphs of what you want to be doing. | |||
| </p> | |||
| <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
| ### My Final Vision | |||
| WIP | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" --> | |||
| ### Act Now! | |||
| @@ -386,4 +369,4 @@ Starting small is fine, as long as you start!<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - to avoid overthinking it<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - to figure out if I need to scale it out<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - I regularly experienced flow, improved my mood, raised my skills and really enjoyed doing it.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - having a vision is one thing, but acting on it is also essential<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| - having a vision for your life is nice, but acting on it is essential<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
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| --- | |||
| ### Real world | |||
| is complex and ever-changing. | |||
| ### Mental model <!-- .element: class="fragment" data-fragment-index="2" --> | |||
| is our understanding of the world and its rules. <!-- .element: class="fragment" data-fragment-index="2" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| Mental models have varying levels of *objectivity*, | |||
| i.e. how much they correspond to reality. | |||
| --- | |||
| ### Dunning-Kruger effect | |||
| is a cognitive bias<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| @@ -59,7 +43,6 @@ overestimate their abilities.<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| - check your facts, use reliable sources<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| - question your intuition<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| - seek external feedback<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| - search for both proof and disproof of facts<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" --> | |||
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| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background="slides/outcomes.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#033" --> | |||
| Flow brings outcomes and they keep us going: | |||
| Daily meaningful activities | |||
| using skills you already have | |||
| gets you into flow. | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background="slides/outcomes.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" --> | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#033" --> | |||
| Flow frequently brings **outcomes**: | |||
| - emotional outcomes (makes us happy) | |||
| - material outcomes (fruits of our labour) | |||
| - emotional - it makes us happy | |||
| - material - fruits of our labour | |||
| --- | |||
| Outcomes keep us going. | |||
| -V- | |||
| ### But sometimes... | |||
| we get derailed by bad mood | |||
| @@ -42,17 +28,17 @@ Negativity captures our attention | |||
| more than positivity. | |||
| Negativity and pessimism reinforce themselves.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| #### So we stay down | |||
| Negative feedback loop may keep us down, | |||
| due to the negative feedback loop: | |||
| Negativity and pessimism reinforce themselves.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| unproductive, in a bad mood. | |||
| -V- | |||
| We need **emotional stability** to keep us going. | |||
| We need **emotional stability** to keep on going. | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background="slides/hamster_in_box.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.9" data-transition="slide-in fade-out" --> | |||
| @@ -110,6 +96,22 @@ Because it learned it is no use to even try.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| #### Positive Cycle of Flow | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/flow_cycle.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" data-transition="slide-in fade-out" --> | |||
| 1. Do meaningful actions<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 2. Feel good<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 3. Growing skills<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 4. Believe in yourself<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 5. GOTO 1<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" data-background="slides/flow_cycle.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.06" data-transition="slide-out fade-in" --> | |||
| My morning routine of flow | |||
| definitely helped! | |||
| --- | |||
| #### How to break out? | |||
| --- | |||
| @@ -147,21 +149,6 @@ Because it learned it is no use to even try.<!-- .element: class="fragment" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| #### Positive Cycle of Flow | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/flow_cycle.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.1" data-transition="slide-in fade-out" --> | |||
| 1. Do meaningful actions<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 2. Feel good<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 3. Growing skills<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 4. Believe in yourself<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| 5. GOTO 1<!-- .element: class="fragment " --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#030" data-background="slides/flow_cycle.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.06" data-transition="slide-out fade-in" --> | |||
| My morning routine of flow | |||
| definitely helped! | |||
| --- | |||
| #### How to orient yourself towards the future? | |||
| Personal Vision <!-- .element: class="fragment fade-right" --> | |||
| @@ -172,16 +159,12 @@ Personal Vision <!-- .element: class="fragment fade-right" --> | |||
| Choice of attitude <!-- .element: class="fragment fade-left" --> | |||
| --- | |||
| -V- | |||
| We are free to choose our reaction to events. | |||
| [Viktor Frankl] <!-- .element: class="reference-author" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| We choose **how we interpret** our past. | |||
| --- | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background="slides/choice_of_attitude.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.3" --> | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#542" --> | |||
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| ## In this episode... | |||
| ## What to expect today? | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#033" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| @@ -18,38 +18,38 @@ How to stop procrastinating... | |||
| --- | |||
| ## TL;DR | |||
| ## 4 sections | |||
| <!-- .slide: data-background-color="#033" --> | |||
| -V- | |||
| ### Motivation | |||
| ### 1. Motivation | |||
| Find a **personal vision** | |||
| Finding a **personal vision** | |||
| that you want to work towards. | |||
| -V- | |||
| ### Discipline | |||
| ### 2. Discipline | |||
| Build **good habits** | |||
| Building **good habits** | |||
| to take specific actions | |||
| towards your vision. | |||
| towards the vision. | |||
| -V- | |||
| ### Outcomes | |||
| ### 3. Outcomes | |||
| Gain **positive results** | |||
| Maintaining a **positive attitude** | |||
| and keep on going. | |||
| to keep on going. | |||
| -V- | |||
| ### Objectivity | |||
| ### 4. Objectivity | |||
| Gather **external feedback** | |||
| Gathering **external feedback** | |||
| to continue your personal growth. | |||